Re: [PATCH] tcp: Replace infinite loop on recvmsg bug with propercrashusers

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 10:54 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> It sounds more appropriate to me, instead of silently wedging the box.
> At least with that approach we have a chance of finding out what happened.

Its quite the opposite.

If bug is still there 6 months after the commits that broke the drivers,
(making an old bug visible) that means that people never realized the
bug was there.

I understand a distro maintainer has its own choices, but for upstream
kernel we want to have early reports.

This bug is fatal and a security issue. BUG() is appropriate.

If the driver cant be fixed, it should be marked broken.

So I personally NACKed patch to hide the bug, trying to be friendly to
the user.


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